Hockey Cards Gongshow

Send us Fan Mail On this episode on the Hockey Cards Gongshow podcast, we start by honoring the NHL's greatest player to wear number 58 for Episode 58 (4:54).  Next In Who's Hot, Dylan Larkin, Noah Dobson and Filip Gustavsson light up the score sheet (17:05), and anyone on the Wild not named Kaprizov and Vasili Podkolzin ride The Struggle Bus (25:10).  Next, we take a look at Scott Wheel...

Send us Fan Mail On Part 4 of our special podcast series targeted at newer hockey card collectors we cover Upper Deck's ePack with Daniel Machado from Upper Deck.  From setting up your account, buying hockey card packs boxes and cases we cover it all.  Daniel takes us through ePack exclusive cards, mastery achievements, and special cards you can earn like Silver Foil Young Guns and Speckled R...

Send us Fan Mail On this edition of the Hockey Cards Gongshow podcast we start by honoring the NHL's greatest number 57 for episode 57 (3:23).  Next, we do a deep dive into the various Young Guns card variations you can collect for your favorite hockey player (11:41).  In hobby news, Alexander Ovechkin leaves the Washington Capitals for personal, family reasons, Auston Matthews returns from i...

Send us Fan Mail On this episode of the Hockey Cards Gongshow podcast, we start by honoring the NHL's greatest number 56 for episode 56 (3:28).  Next, it's the return of Who's Hot with Artemi Panarin, Moritz Seider and Clayton Keller.  We examine their recent hot play and its effect on their hobby market (13:03).  The Struggle Bus is back and a couple of 2021 rookies are on it with...

Send us Fan Mail On this episode of the Hockey Cards Gongshow Podcast, we start by honoring the NHL's greatest number 55 for Episode 55 (4:20).  Jack Hughes hype is real and more and more collectors are snatching up his cards.  We give our top five Jack Hughes rookie hockey card picks for under $1,000 (13:53). In a special edition of the Struggle Bus, Josh takes the long walk of shame to his...

Send us Fan Mail On this episode of the Hockey Cards Gongshow Podcast, we start by honoring the NHL's greatest player to wear the number 54 for episode 54 (4:31).  Next, it's another NHL Rookie Deep Dive and this time we go deep on the Dallas Stars Rookie forward Wyatt Johnston (12:42).  The Gongshow Gameshow is back and this time we're testing Troy's hockey cards IQ (19:32). ...

Send us Fan Mail On this episode of the Hockey Cards Gongshow podcast, we start by honoring the NHL's greatest number 53 for episode 53 (7:05).  We take a look at the biggest hockey card value gainers and losers so far in the 2022-23 NHL season amongst active players (13:04). Next in our Gongshow social media roundup we cover; The Cole Caufield Injury Impact, January 2023 hockey card sales re...

Send us Fan Mail On this episode of the Hockey Cards Gongshow podcast, we start by honoring the NHL's greatest player to wear number 52 for episode 52 (3:50).  Next, in Who's Hot Owen Powers starts scoring goals and Alexsander Barkov and Zach Hyman are sizzling hot...but are any of these players rookie card values increasing (12:23)?  Jack Eichel and Alex DeBrincat ride the Struggle Bus...

Send us Fan Mail On this episode of the Hockey Cards Gongshow podcast, we start by honoring the NHL's greatest player to wear the number 51 for episode 51 (5:35).  Next, Trevor Zegras, Rasmus Dahlin, and all of the Boston Bruins goalies lead the way in Who's Hot.  We take a look at how their recent play has affected their rookie card values and wonder if Trevor Zegras might be the next p...

Send us Fan Mail On the 50th episode of the Hockey Cards Gongshow Podcast, we start by honoring the NHL's greatest player to wear the number 50 (9:21).  Next, the Rookie Deep Dive is back and we learn all about Winnipeg Jets Cole Perfetti and the current state of his rookie card values (17:44).  Steven Stamkos, Nathan Mackinnon and Martin Jones lead the way in Who's Hot (25:23), while Ma...

Send us Fan Mail On this episode of the Hockey Cards Gongshow podcast we start by honoring the greatest NHL player to wear the number 49 for episode 49 (4:22).  Next, Lucas Raymond, Quinn Hughes and Vince Dunn make an appearance in Who's Hot (14:15), While Pyotr Kochetkov and Clayton Keller ride The Struggle Bus (20:50).   In Hobby News, we cover NHL injury updates, the Minnesota Wild's...

Send us Fan Mail On this episode of the Hockey Cards Gongshow podcast, we start by honoring the NHLs greatest player to wear the number 48 for episode 48 (4:05).  Matty Beniers and Jack Campbell (yes you read that right) make an appearance in Who's Hot (12:33) and there's a Gongshow first on the Struggle Bus (16:32).  In Hobby News, Beckett announces new card grading pricing (23:45), the...

Send us Fan Mail On this episode of the Hockey Cards Gongshow Podcast, we start by honoring the NHLs greatest no. 47 for episode 47 (3:10), Next we dig into our 2022-23 NHL mid-season review looking at biggest hockey hobby stories, biggest surprises like Jason Robertson and Tage Thompson, biggest hockey card hobby disappointments, key second half questions, and our first ever Hockey Cards Gongshow...

Send us Fan Mail On this episode of the Hockey Cards Gongshow podcast, we start by honoring the NHLs greatest no. 46 for episode 46 (5:14).  Next, we continue our Rookie Deep Dive series, this time covering the rookie goalie sensation Pyotr Kochetkov (15:05).  In Movers & Shakers, we start with Who's Hot; Filip Forsberg, Mathew Barzal and Jake Oettinger (20:59).  The Struggle Bus tours th...

Send us Fan Mail On this episode of the Hockey Cards Gongshow podcast, we start by honoring the NHL's greatest (maybe a little stretch this week) player to wear number 45 for episode 45 (3:13).  Next, in Who's Hot we look at Alexander Ovechkin, Travis Konecny and Ilya Sorokin and see if their recent stellar play has increased the values of their key rookie cards (9:48).  It's an all...

Send us Fan Mail On this episode of the Hockey Cards Gongshow podcast, we start 2023 off by honoring the NHL's greatest no. 44 for episode 44 (2:49).  Next, we review Who's Hot and look at the past couple weeks on ice performance and hockey card values for Erik Karlsson, Mikko Rantanen, and Elias Pettersson (15:37).  Alex Newhook and Alexis Lafreniere find them selves on the Struggle Bus...

Send us Fan Mail On this special episode of the Hockey Cards Gongshow podcast, we take a look back at the highs and lows of the hockey card hobby with our 2022 Hockey Hobby Year In Review.  We start by honoring the NHLs greatest no. 43 for episode 43 as has become our tradition (4:27).  Next, in a special Movers & Shakers we start by taking a look at some of the biggest value gaining hockey ca...

Send us Fan Mail On Part 3 of our special series aimed at introducing new collectors to the hockey card hobby and shortening their learning curve.  We start by looking at the best resources for researching new hockey card sets (5:10).  How to know when new sets will be available to buy (13:15). Next, we take a look at the difference between hobby & retail sets and licensed versus unlicensed ca...

Send us Fan Mail On this episode of the Hockey Cards Gongshow podcast we start by honoring the NHL's greatest number 42 for episode 42 (4:22).  Next, we were joined by hockey card mega collector Les Edwards who own's some of the most sought after and rare cards in existence to talk about how he approaches building his collection, the players he targets, and the overall hockey card market...

Send us Fan Mail On this episode of the Hockey Cards Gongshow podcast we start by honoring the NHL's greatest #41, Jason Allison, for episode 41 (2:36).  Next, it's time for another rookie deep dive and this week we dig into Andrei Kuzmenko (10:21).  Adam Gray from PWCC joins the show to talk about the potential benefits of vaulting your hockey card collection (18:49).  In Who's Hot...

Send us Fan Mail On this episode of the Hockey Cards Gongshow Podcast, we start by honoring the NHL's greatest no. 40 for episode 40, Henrik Zetterberg (1:53).  Next, a huge NHL milestone was reached with Alex Ovechkin's 800th career goal.  We look at the hobby impact of Ovi joining the 800 club and update his chase for the all-time goals record 895 (9:31).  We break down our thoughts on...

Send us Fan Mail On this episode of the Hockey Cards Gongshow podcast, we start by honoring the NHL's greatest no. 39, Dominik Hasek for episode 39 (4:13).  Next, we do a deep dive on NHL rookie Arber Xhekaj, or better known as Wi-Fi from the Montreal Canadiens (15:00).  Josh reviews his first ever PWCC vault submission where he sent in  Cole Caufield and Jack Hughes rookie cards to be graded...

Send us Fan Mail On this episode of the Hockey Cards Gongshow Podcast, we start by honoring the NHL's all-time greatest no. 38, Pavol Demitra (2:28).  Next, we look at some interesting hockey cards in the upcoming PWCC Weekly auction (7:23).  In who's hot, Dylan Cozens, Matty Beniers and Kyle Connor all have had a huge couple of weeks and we look at their card value trends to see if coll...

Send us Fan Mail On this episode of the Hockey Cards Gongshow podcast, we start by honoring the NHLs greatest no. 37 in honor of episode 37 (11:25).  Next we deep dive, Buffalo Sabres Rookie, Jack Quinn (21:58).  Kirill Kaprizov, Kevin Fiala and Nikita Kucherov highlight Who's Hot, plus see who's on the Struggle Bus (26:36).  Troy reviews the hockey cards featured in this month's PW...

Send us Fan Mail On this episode of the Hockey Cards Gongshow podcast, we start by taking a look at the NHL's greatest no. 36 in honor of episode 36 (2:55).  Next, we break down some new interesting NHL data that challenges the assumption that a players peak age is typically in their late 20's and the impact this new information could have on the hockey card hobby (11:33).  In Who's...